Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Manuale

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MANUA'LE. A small wooden case, or binding for a book (libellus), which prevented the margins of the leaves from getting rubbed or dog's-eared by the dress of the person who carried it about with him. Mart. xiv. 84.